Audio: The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes

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Niamh Daly narrates, as feisty private investigator Helen Close tracks down a missing member of a once-famous band

Titled in Agatha Christie style and packaged to look like chick-lit, Marian
Keyes’s The Mystery of Mercy Close is subtler than either. Fans
of Keyes will recognise Helen Close from Watermelon and Rachel’s
Holiday, but now she’s in her thirties and washed up, enmeshed in an
affair with a married man and failing as a private investigator. Dogged as
she is by depression, she is still wonderfully feisty, and when a dodgy
ex-boyfriend asks her to find a missing member of a once-famous band, she
sets out resourcefully to track him down.